It’s harder to understand why using a word would be wrong when they don’t affect you. Have some empathy and understand why for people that are marginalized and called something as a slur that it would be nicer to just stop using the word.
Nobody is banning the word, either. Just responding with their own free speech to say it’s idioitic to not understand why slurs are wrong to use.
I can tell you why people are annoyed at it. Its because more and more words are ending up being banned or seen as politically incorrect. We had a chocolate ball here in Sweden that was called “negerboll” since negro just meant dark or black. And all of a sudden, it was a bad word and we had to call it a chocolate ball instead.
Its just one example but the point is, it’s a ridiculous trend to ban words just because some people may feel insulted by the word. We have almost banned the word “fat” as well and replaced it with “big boned”. Do you understand what I mean? It becomes absolutely ridiculous.
Its almost as bad now that you can’t point out who you mean in a crowd. If you say “the black guy over there”, or “the Chinese woman”, some people think it’s racist. Come on. This is not normal.
It’s harder to understand why using a word would be wrong when they don’t affect you. Have some empathy and understand why for people that are marginalized and called something as a slur that it would be nicer to just stop using the word.
Nobody is banning the word, either. Just responding with their own free speech to say it’s idioitic to not understand why slurs are wrong to use.
I can tell you why people are annoyed at it. Its because more and more words are ending up being banned or seen as politically incorrect. We had a chocolate ball here in Sweden that was called “negerboll” since negro just meant dark or black. And all of a sudden, it was a bad word and we had to call it a chocolate ball instead.
Its just one example but the point is, it’s a ridiculous trend to ban words just because some people may feel insulted by the word. We have almost banned the word “fat” as well and replaced it with “big boned”. Do you understand what I mean? It becomes absolutely ridiculous.
Its almost as bad now that you can’t point out who you mean in a crowd. If you say “the black guy over there”, or “the Chinese woman”, some people think it’s racist. Come on. This is not normal.